Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 12:04:08 GMT -6
Hi,
I am the father of two young children, probably still a year or two out from playing rpgs. In the mean time I've been reading games that might be good introductions and came across E&S. I really like the rules but thought it might be nice to give them a proper Oe treatment - splitting them into 3 booklets (Characters & Combat, Magic, and Monsters & Treasure). I just recently finished the first booklet.
I am making these for my personal use, but enjoy doing this kind of thing and am trying to make them as professional as possible. I have edited the text in places, but have not changed any rules from the english translation of the first edition. Some of the changes are in response to discussions within this forum about unclear or implicit rules. In other places I have attempted to smooth out, what seemed to me at least, awkward sentences which felt like artifacts of the translation process.
In the process of trying to clarify rules I did take a glance at the second edition through google translator. I am a non-francophone, and the translation is garbled, but what I could glean was really interesting - thieves and druids, spell corruptions and more. I'm not up for a full translation but may pick at these to produce a fourth booklet.
So, I'm totally willing to share this stuff, but would like Nicolas Dessaux's (Snorri) permission. I'm also not sure where the game stands with Brave Halfling Publishing. I've tried emailing the author with the email listed in his profile for this forum, but no luck.
The other thing I'd find really useful is an rtf (doc, or odt etc.) of the english translation. Currently I have been ripping the text from the pdf with pdftotext (poppler-bin if you use linux). This works but requires a ton of reformatting after the fact.
There are tumbleweeds blowing around the E&S boards, which is sad, because it's too good a game to disappear into history. In my mind it is to Oe what the Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game was to B/X and 1e. Cool and unique.
Here is a link to the cover for volume 1 as a preview:
Volume 1 cover pdf
I am the father of two young children, probably still a year or two out from playing rpgs. In the mean time I've been reading games that might be good introductions and came across E&S. I really like the rules but thought it might be nice to give them a proper Oe treatment - splitting them into 3 booklets (Characters & Combat, Magic, and Monsters & Treasure). I just recently finished the first booklet.
I am making these for my personal use, but enjoy doing this kind of thing and am trying to make them as professional as possible. I have edited the text in places, but have not changed any rules from the english translation of the first edition. Some of the changes are in response to discussions within this forum about unclear or implicit rules. In other places I have attempted to smooth out, what seemed to me at least, awkward sentences which felt like artifacts of the translation process.
In the process of trying to clarify rules I did take a glance at the second edition through google translator. I am a non-francophone, and the translation is garbled, but what I could glean was really interesting - thieves and druids, spell corruptions and more. I'm not up for a full translation but may pick at these to produce a fourth booklet.
So, I'm totally willing to share this stuff, but would like Nicolas Dessaux's (Snorri) permission. I'm also not sure where the game stands with Brave Halfling Publishing. I've tried emailing the author with the email listed in his profile for this forum, but no luck.
The other thing I'd find really useful is an rtf (doc, or odt etc.) of the english translation. Currently I have been ripping the text from the pdf with pdftotext (poppler-bin if you use linux). This works but requires a ton of reformatting after the fact.
There are tumbleweeds blowing around the E&S boards, which is sad, because it's too good a game to disappear into history. In my mind it is to Oe what the Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game was to B/X and 1e. Cool and unique.
Here is a link to the cover for volume 1 as a preview:
Volume 1 cover pdf